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by petre 948 days ago
Mercurial is dead unfortunately. It's been stuck on Python 2. The CLI was saner than Git but it needed Python, which helped with our (better) decision to pick Fossil instead. This was 11 years ago. It's been great, it has everything you need in a single executable which can be statically compiled.
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alwillis 948 days ago
> Mercurial is dead unfortunately. It's been stuck on Python 2.

Mercurial adopted Python 3 a while ago. Not to mention, huge chunks of it have been rewritten in Rust.

Mercurial has continued to get new features like Changeset Evolution [1] that once you use it, you wonder why all version control systems don’t have it.

[1]: https://www.mercurial-scm.org/doc/evolution/

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rbehrends 948 days ago
Mercurial runs on Python 3 just fine and has been for a while. In fact, starting with Mercurial 6.2 (from July 2022), Python 2 is no longer supported [1].

[1] https://wiki.mercurial-scm.org/Release6.2

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